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  • CHAINS, LESSER NOVELS AND STORIES
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    CHAINS, LESSER NOVELS AND STORIES
    THEODORE DREISER
    Excerpt: "Primarily, there were the conditions under which she was brought to fifteen years of age: the crowded, scummy tenements; the narrow green-painted halls with their dim gas-jets, making the entrance look more like that of a morgue than a dwelling-place; the dirty halls and rooms with their green or blue or brown walls painted to save the cost of paper; the bare wooden f...

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  • HEY RUB-A-DUB-DUB A BOOK OF THE MYSTERY AND WONDER OF LIFE
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    HEY RUB-A-DUB-DUB A BOOK OF THE MYSTERY AND WONDER OF LIFE
    THEODORE DREISER
    Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life is a collection of twenty essays by Theodore Dreiser. Keith Newlin has argued that Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub follows in the wake of Dreiser's attempts at philosophy, which he had started in his 1916 book called Plays of the Natural and Supernatural and ended with Notes on Life, published posthumously in 1974. ...

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  • A TRAVELER AT FORTY
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    A TRAVELER AT FORTY
    THEODORE DREISER
    The most productive period of Theodore Dreiser writing life began with the five months he spent in Europe between 1911 and 1912. A Traveler at Forty is the detailed account of his travels during that time, including the exploration of his ancestral roots in Germany. (Goodreads) ...

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  • A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF
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    A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF
    THEODORE DREISER
    Excerpt: "During the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Field’s “Sharps and Flats,” a column he wrote daily for the Chicago Daily News, and through this, the various phases of life which he suggested in a humorous though at times romantic way, I was beginning to suspect,...

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  • AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
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    AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
    THEODORE DREISER
    An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize the American Dream. It’s an ambitious novel that unflinchingly confronts the lie of the American Dream and myth of...

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  • SISTER CARRIE
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    SISTER CARRIE
    THEODORE DREISER
    Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels". ...

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  • TWELVE MEN
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    TWELVE MEN
    THEODORE DREISER
    Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influ...

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  • THE COLOR OF A GREAT CITY
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    THE COLOR OF A GREAT CITY
    THEODORE DREISER
    In stories such as Six O'Clock, The City Awakes and The Waterfront, the author returns the reader to turn-of-the-century New York with his early memories of the city. (Goodreads) ...

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  • JENNIE GERHARDT A NOVEL
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    JENNIE GERHARDT A NOVEL
    THEODORE DREISER
    Jennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser. Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her. Jennie, grateful for his benevolence, agrees to sleep with him. He dies before they marry, and Je...

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    THE "GENIUS"
    THEODORE DREISER
    The "Genius" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Theodore Dreiser, first published in 1915. The story concerns Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. The book sold 8,000 copies in the months immediately following publication but encountered legal difficulties when it was declared p...

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  • THE FINANCIER
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    THE FINANCIER
    THEODORE DREISER
    The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as The Financier.[1] The second part appeared in 1914 as The Titan; the third volume of his Trilogy of Desire was also Dreiser's final novel, The Stoic (1947). In Phi...

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  • THE FINANCIER
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    THE FINANCIER
    THEODORE DREISER
    A ruthlessly ambitious mogul finds his life derailed by the financial panic of 1873 in this classic novel by the author of An American Tragedy.   Frank Cowperwood’s story begins at an auction sale in Philadelphia, where an unassuming bid for seven cases of soap quickly makes him a large personal gain in just one day. Having grown up among the ruthlessness and glamour of the Gil...

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  • SISTER CARRIE
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    SISTER CARRIE
    THEODORE DREISER
    Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels." ...

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  • THE TITAN
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    THE TITAN
    THEODORE DREISER
    The second novel in the Trilogy of Desire from the author of The Financier and Sister Carrie.   In the Panic of 1873, Frank Cowperwood’s fortune was destroyed and his criminal activity on the stock exchange was exposed. Now, with his prison sentence complete, he is ready to begin the next chapter of his life. Following the same creed of selfishness that guided him to his first ...

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    THE "GENIUS"
    THEODORE DREISER
    The gritty, controversial story of a life devoted to art and sensuality from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.   Driven to experience life beyond the small Illinois town of his youth, Eugene Witla makes his way to Chicago, where he is immediately drawn to the buzz of the city and the sexual freedom of bohemian life. At the Chicago Art Inst...

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  • SISTER CARRIE
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    SISTER CARRIE
    THEODORE DREISER
    The controversial classic novel of a young woman’s journey from poverty to stardom in capitalist America.   Dissatisfied with life in rural Wisconsin, eighteen-year-old Carrie Meeber travels to Chicago. With no money or prospects, her only means of survival is a job in a squalid factory—until Charlie Drouet, a charming, well-dressed man, offers to take her to dinner.   Lavishin...

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  • THE FINANCIER
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    THE FINANCIER
    THEODORE DREISER
    A nuanced portrait of one of the greatest characters in twentieth-century literature. Based on the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, the epic narrative spans from the aftermath of the Civil War to the Great Chicago Fire and the Panic of 1873. Both a glimpse of a fascinating period in American history and a timeless portrait of the dark side of human nature, this is t...

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  • THE STOIC
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    THE STOIC
    THEODORE DREISER
    The conclusion to the trilogy based on a real railway tycoon’s life, with “an amazingly intricate description of high-rolling 19th-century finance” (The Wall Street Journal).   Based on the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, the epic Trilogy of Desire weaves a tale of American capitalism through the rise and fall of Frank Cowperwood. Following The Financier and The Ti...

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  • THE BULWARK
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    THE BULWARK
    THEODORE DREISER
    A young Quaker finds material success—and moral challenge—after marrying into a wealthy Philadelphia family, in a novel by the author of Sister Carrie.   Rufus and Hannah Barnes are good Quakers, highly respected in their new community of Dukla, Pennsylvania and strictly loyal to their faith. They pass this loyalty on to their children, including Solon Barnes, who must hold on ...

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  • TRILOGY OF DESIRE
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    TRILOGY OF DESIRE
    THEODORE DREISER
    The saga of a Gilded Age mogul’s rise and fall, inspired by a real historical figure, from the author of An American Tragedy.   Inspired by the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, these three novels weave a tale of American capitalism in the late nineteenth century. Included in this volume are:   The Financier: Ruthlessly ambitious businessman Frank Cowperwood finds hi...

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  • NUESTRA CARRIE
    NUESTRA CARRIE
    THEODORE DREISER
    Publicada a regañadientes por su propio editor, que la juzgaba inmoral y apenas la distribuyó, Nuestra Carrie pasó prácticamente inadvertida en el momento de su aparición, en 1900. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, habría de ser considerada la gran novela naturalista norteamericana. En ella Dreiser trazó la completa carrera de una heroína desde que, en las primeras páginas, deja su p...
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